sgi linux
I'm cc'ing this to the SGI mailing list. Eric, you should get yourself on it.
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Eric Melville wrote:
L> hi, i'm following your instructions for linux on an indy... to the
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extent of my knowledge, bootp/tftp/nfs are all working fine... so next comes time to boot the sucker. i enter "boot bootp():/vmlinux", and it fires up the kernel, claims to mount root fs via nfs, but then it stops... it says something like:
Warning: cannot open initial console
Kernel panic: try passing "init=" to the kernel
This is one of two things:
- your filesystem isn't exported properly from whatever nefs server you have, in which case you need to veryify that /dev/console (at least) is exported properly.
- you're trying to use a serial console, which is currently unsupported.
- Alex
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- your filesystem isn't exported properly from whatever nefs server you have, in which case you need to veryify that
/dev/console(at least) is exported properly.- you're trying to use a serial console, which is currently unsupported.
aha... i think it's caus i untarred to an msdos partition first ;) so i don't have _anything_ in my /dev dir... heh...
-E